Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.

One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.

My mythic version of America is very much about parents and children, and in my experience, the suburban setting is where that particular drama plays out. Which isn't to say that there aren't parents and children in cities or on farms. I just don't know them.

I have always liked family-type dramas; I just think the dynamics in families make for some really interesting characters.

'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.

There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.

So much of life's dramas, good and bad, play out against family and so it's really inspiring for any number of stories in all the fields I write in.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and had similar life experiences.

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

The book came after the fall of the Taliban, it says something about Afghan family life. Those kind of stories - what happens behind the scenes on a TV screen - are important.

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Plays which are universal tempt me. 'August: Osage County' is a play which is relevant to the urban Indian set up.

I'd like to do more family dramas.

Some filmmakers are more eclectic than others. I'm not one of those! I'm interested in what I'm interested in, which is films about the world, about what's going on. I started in TV documentaries with 'World in Action,' and those interests feed into the films I make now.

You have some great films every year, but for the most part, no one is making films with heavy messages or themes. People are afraid of doing that.

Science fiction should not be dismissed as escapism. It is a profound vehicle for talking about social and political issues.

'Dhadak' has its own individuality and a story that deserves to be told to a larger audience.

I come from a big family where we tell big stories. All we had was the storytelling.

I enjoy watching the genre of family dramas. I love family films like 'Nuvvu Naku Nacchav,' 'Malleeswari,' and 'Bommarillu.'

I don't think I have tried to give any message through 'Mulk.' But I have put certain things on the table which are usually discussed in the living rooms, not in our cinema.